SALT LAKE CITY —Over the past two weeks, I fulfilled a life dream with my mother of traveling to Europe. This started in earnest a year ago with an opportunity (my mother’s phone call of, “I want to take you back to the ‘Old Country,’ i.e., Scotland”), but was a seeming impossibility (age of my children, life schedules) that became a stressful possibility (“Can we just hire a travel agent?”). At last, planets aligned and we were off.
As we traveled through four countries, I noticed signs for “Take Away” — meaning, fast food or take out. Using a double entendre from this experience, I’ve thought about this question: What happens after realizing a dream? What exactly has been my personal “take away”?
1. I can do things that I’m absolutely sure I can’t
From the get-go, I knew from past and painful experiences I was not a great trip planner (i.e. the scary hotel where I tried to cook a Thanksgiving turkey in a baby doll oven with a drunk man banging on the wall next door…) However, I learned.
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